Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

A Mobile Carnival at mjelly

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James Cooper at mjelly is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, a collection of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics from around the world. Featured are items on mobile web growth,  Android apps, iPhone multitasking, SMS marketing, the dangers of overly broad software patents, mobile commerce, mobiles for public service and safety, presence and the social graph and a mobile news roundup. Congratulations to Vero at  Taptu whose piece on the pricing brouhaha surrounding the new S60 Twitter … Continue reading →

Can’t Download Opera Mini? Here’s Some Help

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This is the fifth in a series of Opera Mini Tips and Tricks posts.  This one covers the situation where you get an error trying to download Opera Mini.  The Opera developers have gone to a lot of trouble to make Mini a generic Java ME application that will work on as many phones as possible.  Most of the time installing Opera Mini is simply a matter of visiting mini.opera.com with your phone’s built-in browser, clicking the download link and … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #57

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1554 mobile sites. Business/Banking and Payments/US Regional Banks BECU m.becu.org Membership in the Boeing Employees Credit Union is open to all Washington State residents.  BECU has 45 branches and 160 ATMs in the Seattle and Puget Sound area.  The credit union’s mobile site … Continue reading →

Virgin Mobile US to Bundle Opera Mini

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At CTIA, Opera Software and Virgin Mobile USA (VM) announced a deal where the operator will bundle Opera Mini with future handsets.  In the US, Virgin Mobile is a join venture between Richard Branson’s  Virgin Group and Sprint/Nextel. Starting April 14th, users of eight current Virgin Mobile phones will be able to download Opera Mini 4.2 for free from the VirginXL on-deck app store.  Although eight phones are said to be supported, Virgin has only named four; the Samsung M310 … Continue reading →

The Economist’s Free Mobile Site

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Prestigious international affairs and business news weekly The Economist, has quietly dropped the pay wall on their mobile edition. The mobile site which used to cost $7.95 a month is now completely free. The Economist Mobile includes a selection of articles from the paper’s main on-line site and the print edition. There are typically around 50 articles on the mobile site divided into News, Politics, Leaders, Business, Science and Technology and Business Travel sections. Most articles include single mobile sized … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser Beta 2 – New Features and Performance Enhancements

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At CTIA yesterday, Bitstream has released a new version of the Bolt Browser.  It’s V. 0.94, also called Beta 2.  New features include: – Significantly improved BlackBerry scrolling speed and control – A new 3XL (extra large) magnification mode with content 33.3 percent bigger than in 2XL – Double tap approach to select links on touchscreen devices like the BlackBerry storm (eliminates inadvertent clicks) – Wi-Fi auto-selection as default option when Wi-Fi is both enabled and available – Save and … Continue reading →

The New Yahoo Mobile Web Portal Is Live

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Today at CTIA, Yahoo announced the availability of the new Yahoo Mobile.  It comes in the form of an iPhone app and as a mobile web site at new.m.yahoo.com. I’ve been playing with the web based version a bit and it’s pretty nice already and should be great once a few opening day bugs are ironed out. Yahoo Mobile is a very flexible and open web portal which allows you to add virtually any sort of content, including third party … Continue reading →

Geek.com – PDAGeek returns!

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Geek.com ( geek.com/portable/) Long before Engadget and Gizmodo there was Geek.com.  The site’s been around since at least 1998 and is still a good source of tech news. There even used to be a mobile version called PDAGeek that I read everyday on the train using a Handspring Visor Deluxe and Plucker eight or nine years ago. The mobile edition disappeared a couple of years ago along with the unconnected PDA. It looks mobile Geek.com is back minus the dated … Continue reading →